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QPR finally set to offload Brazil goalkeeper to Benfica

Julio Cesar is in Portugal ahead of a season-long loan move from QPR to Benfica.

The Brazil goalkeeper is surplus to requirements at Loftus Road, and manager Harry Redknapp is keen to offload the 34-year-old, who is currently earning £100,000-a-week at the west London club.

Redknapp, who stuck with former England stopper Robert Green in his side’s Premier League opener on Saturday, said: "Benfica are supposed to want him. Cesar is supposed to be over there. I hope he’s there anyway."

Cesar joined QPR in August 2012 and spent last season on loan at Toronto FC, before playing in all seven of Brazil’s World Cup matches this summer.